A highly selective turn-on fluorescent probe for hypochlorous acid based on hypochlorous acid-induced oxidative intramolecular cyclization of boron dipyrromethene-hydrazone

A BODIPY-based fluorescent probe, HBP, was developed for the detection of hypochlorous acid based on the specific hypochlorous acid-promoted oxidative intramolecular cyclization of heterocyclic hydrazone in response to the amount of HOCl. The reaction is accompanied by a 41-fold increase in the fluorescent quantum yield (from 0.004 to 0.164). The fluorescence intensity of the reaction between HOCl and HBP is linear in the HOCl concentration range of 1–8 μM with a detection limit of 2.4 nM (S/N = 3). Confocal fluorescence microscopy imaging using RAW264.7 cells showed that the new probe HBP could be used as an effective fluorescent probe for detecting HOCl in living cells.     

Mechanisms of electrochemical nitrogen gas reduction to ammonia under ambient conditions: a focused review

Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry - Electrocatalytic nitrogen reduction reaction (E-NRR) to ammonia is becoming a major topic of interest in the field of large-scale energy storage from...     

Synthesis of Novel N‐Morpholinoacetyl‐2,6‐diarylpiperidin‐4‐ones

A series of N‐chloroacetyl‐2,6‐diarylpiperidin‐4‐ones (10–18) obtained from the corresponding 2,6‐diarylpiperidin‐4‐ones upon base‐catalyzed condensation with morpholine afforded N‐morpholinoacetyl‐2,6‐diarylpiperidin‐4‐ones (19–27). The synthesized compounds have been characterized by their elemental, analytical, and spectral data.     

Vinylimidazole‐based asymmetric ion pair comonomers: Synthesis,polymerization studies and formation of ionically crosslinked PMMA

Vinylimidazole‐based asymmetric ion pair comonomers ( IPC s) which are free from nonpolymerizable counter ions have been synthesized, characterized and polymerized by free radical polymerization (FRP), atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP), and reversible addition‐fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) mediated polymerizations in solution and by dispersion polymerization in water. The asymmetric nature of IPC s is due to the fact that cationic component of these IPCs is derived from vinylimidazole (VIm) and anionic component is derived from either styrenesulfonate (SS) or 2‐acrylamido‐2‐methyl‐1‐propanesulfonate. Although under ATRP, conversions are either very low or negligible, FRP and RAFT produces polymers with high to moderate monomer conversions but with different solubility characteristics. This investigation provides insight to the polymerization behavior of each component of the asymmetric IPCs and also its effects on composition and solubility characteristics of the resulting polymers. The IPCs studied here are high temperature ionic liquid and thus the polymers synthesized from these IPCs are highly ionic in nature and possess very strong intermolecular interactions which makes some of these IPC based polymers completely insoluble in organic and aqueous solvents. This highly ionic interaction is exploited to synthesize ionically crosslinked PMMA. MMA on copolymerization with 5–6 mol % of IPC yielded copolymer which is insoluble in common organic solvents like THF, DMF, etc., unlike homo PMMA. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. 2013, 51, 3260–3273     

Structural Elucidation and Position Identification of Cu(II) ion in Hexaaquazinc(diaquabismalonto)zincate: Single Crystal EPR and Optical Studies

Journal of Cluster Science - Single crystal electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR), powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform-infrared (FT-IR) and UV–Visible (UV–Vis)...     

Effect of anthracene doping on potassium hydrogen phthalate crystals

The influence of the highly fluorescent dopant, anthracene (over a concentration range from 5 × 10^?4 to 1.2 × 10^?2 mol dm^?3) on the nonlinear optical properties and fluorescence intensity of potassium hydrogen phthalate (KHP) single crystals grown at 30 °C by a slow evaporation solution growth technique (SEST) has been investigated. Powder XRD and FTIR spectral analyses confirm the slight distortion of the structure of crystal because of doping. UV–Visible study shows that the transparency is not affected much by the dopant. The SEM investigation reveals that KHP suffers from crack development. Thermal analysis indicates that there is no decomposition of the crystal up to the melting point. It is interesting to observe that additions of small quantity anthracene to KHP results in the enhancement of fluorescence intensity. The fluorescence intensity dependence on dopant concentration is observed. Interestingly, second harmonic generation (SHG) efficiency of KHP is dramatically improved by doping with small quantities of anthracene.